Brad A. Myers
4 papers in the PaperMetrix corpus
Papers by this author
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Smarter Smart Contract Development Tools
2019
Much recent work focuses on finding bugs and security vulnerabilities in smart contracts written in existing languages. Although this approach may be helpful, it does not address flaws in the underlying programming language, which can …
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Interactive Task and Concept Learning from Natural Language Instructions and GUI Demonstrations
2019 · arXiv (Cornell University)
Natural language programming is a promising approach to enable end users to instruct new tasks for intelligent agents. However, our formative study found that end users would often use unclear, ambiguous or vague concepts when …
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A Large-Scale Survey on the Usability of AI Programming Assistants: Successes and Challenges
2023 · arXiv (Cornell University)
The software engineering community recently has witnessed widespread deployment of AI programming assistants, such as GitHub Copilot. However, in practice, developers do not accept AI programming assistants' initial suggestions at a high frequency. This leaves …
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Understanding Documentation Use Through Log Analysis: An Exploratory Case Study of Four Cloud Services
2023 · arXiv (Cornell University)
Almost no modern software system is written from scratch, and developers are required to effectively learn to use third-party libraries or software services. Thus, many practitioners and researchers have looked for ways to create effective …